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> IIRC, Java String are immutable to allow creating substrings as views on the same char array, ... If you point to substring() as a view of a string, nope, th

by okr 12y ago

> IIRC, Java String are immutable to allow creating substrings as views on the same char array, ... If you point to substring() as a view of a string, nope, that behaviour has changed for quite some time already. Surprisingly for me as well, back then.

ffriend 12y ago
Ah, yeah, I remember discussion about this, but didn't know about its result (I'm not active Java developer for some time now). Anyway, I think you've got an idea - immutability assumption may be pretty useful and improve performance in some cases, not decrease it (if you use it correctly, of course).